MESSAGE TO AMERICA

Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 286, 27 August 1908, Page 7

MESSAGE TO AMERICA

FROM MR. DEAKIN. " WE LOOK INSTINCTIVELY TO YOU." IMPERIAL FEDERALISM. (i)T TSLEGBArn—rRESS ASSOCIATION—COI'TRICOT.) Melbourne, August 26., A lengthy messago from tho Fedoral Prime Ministor- (Mr. Deakin) appeared in leading American papers on Thursday last. After expressing an overwhelming sense of obligation to the people of the United States for generously • dispatching tho ' proud fleet of battleships,; the Prime Minister declared " The invitation springs solely from an earnest desire to deepen our- mutual sense of kinship, sympathy, and solidarity, nor can this answer appear insufficient when it is remembered that these very sentiments, and the proud impulses allied to them, havo out of many separate States built up your great republic, , stretching from ocean to ocean, enormous -in range and development, and with prospects illimitable.

"From the same sources and through similar channels here, comes tho same power 6f shaping our sundered colonies into one Commonwealth, enabling us to.ev.oke strength equal to our vast , opportunities. The Mother (jountry itself, -in whose great cradle of Liberty both your freedom and ours was nursed, is meeting the strain on her iarreaching Empire by elaborating slowly, but surely,, new federal precedents which portend tho free union of free dominions, growing stronger as they grow together. "In tho meantime, realising the riches of natural national relationship, we look instinctively, first 'and confidently, to you Americans, nearest to us in blood, in character, and in purpose. It is in this spirit and in this hope that Australia welcomes with open hand and heart the coming of your sailors and of the flag which, like our- own, shelters a new world under the symbol of its vital union. May the present accord betweei} the English-speaking peoples; jjeget. perpetual concord between us, thus making for: the fulfilment of the Advent promiso of peace on earth,' goodwill towards jiien." '"

V. JAPAN'S RECEPTION. (Rec. August 26, 11.45 p.m.), Tokio, August 26. The semi-official journals of Tokio bespeak the warmest reception.to Admiral .Sperry's Fleet by the Government and the people of Japan. : -J ! " ' '